tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4493137999097550682.post4607541242897625386..comments2023-11-19T04:45:41.732-06:00Comments on 50 Authors from 50 States: Jeff Provine a Product of the Land RunAnnette Snyderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01879067226705508336noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4493137999097550682.post-64768531357678273252015-09-07T12:40:51.523-05:002015-09-07T12:40:51.523-05:00I love a good ghost story. I didn't believe i...I love a good ghost story. I didn't believe in them much until husband and I lived in a house with a "spirit" of some kind who never bothered us much, just wanted to be acknowledged. The house next to ours now has "voices" in it, so much so that the man who lives there alone now, has every light in the house on every night...including in the basement. Having heard the voices once, when the former owners let me use their dryer when they were out shopping, I can understand why!<br /><br />Never been to Oklahoma. Sounds like a great place to camp!<br />fiona (dot) mcgier (at) gmail (dot) comFiona McGierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13495707848048468428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4493137999097550682.post-73118941848379100772015-09-07T06:58:33.959-05:002015-09-07T06:58:33.959-05:00I've never been to Oklahoma, but you sounds as...I've never been to Oklahoma, but you sounds as though your roots are sunk deep and it's a place with many happy memories for you. Like Ken Weene, my feelings about the state are tainted by its early history as a place to isolate people we didn't want in our own backyards.jrlindermuthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09204855909246670628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4493137999097550682.post-27102080664559227572015-09-06T16:36:42.907-05:002015-09-06T16:36:42.907-05:00My Grandpa had a general store in Yukon, OK befor...My Grandpa had a general store in Yukon, OK before statehood, but after the land runs. I have visited Guthrie and gee--you're right--very interesting!Radine Trees Nehringhttp://www.radinesbooks.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4493137999097550682.post-15904793478424597422015-09-06T10:51:55.874-05:002015-09-06T10:51:55.874-05:00You've focused so well on your town that I wis...You've focused so well on your town that I wish to go there. I see it now as a place with an incredible past, present and future. I would love to go on the ghost walk, or just be in your town and soak up the vibes. A maternal aunt lived many years in and around Tulsa and we visited once, but I was only 14 and we didn't get to see much of the state. We did, however, go somewhere - I don't remember - and see the two buildings that my mother's large family grew up in. Have always had a sort of connection of Oklahoma and thought if I traveled through the states, this one would not be missed. Thanks for your lively descriptions. Sounds like a wonderful place to live.Mary Dealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09097790821159195213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4493137999097550682.post-70888522721419533242015-09-06T08:55:47.919-05:002015-09-06T08:55:47.919-05:00I love a good ghost story, be it about a person or...I love a good ghost story, be it about a person or a town. Of course, Oklahoma is itself built on another ghost, the believe that Native Americans could have a place of their own in this world. But that's another story and one that leads me to a painful question: How much of the Oklahoman view of the world is rooted in the denial of the underlying genocidal assumptions of the state's founding. Sure, I know that today there are many Native Americans living and prospering in Oklahoma, but that initial historical moment when the Euro-Americans decided to do away with the promise of a separate Indian Nation and arrogate the land be it for farming, ranching, building cities, or whatever—how does that decision resonate? Perhaps it is that unfinished sin that keeps so many ghosts trapped in this side of eternity.<br />Ken Weenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14518433815909216348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4493137999097550682.post-39314612467002183412015-09-06T08:20:01.405-05:002015-09-06T08:20:01.405-05:00I enjoyed your blog immensely, Jeff. My grandfathe...I enjoyed your blog immensely, Jeff. My grandfather went to Oklahoma as a young man and stayed twenty years, returning to KY to marry his best friend's baby whom he had jokingly promised to marry when he returned if she would wait for him. She did. Another relative on mine lived in Oklahoma Territory and wrote the book Oklahombre which is still available on Amazon. Linda Swift LSwiftR@aol.comLinda Swiftnoreply@blogger.com